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Bloomfield Chamber E-Forum Newsletter- August 2010
SS & C SummerWind Performing Arts Center Announces its August Concert SeriesWill holiday spending leave consumers budgets in The SS&C SummerWind Performing Arts Center recently announced that it would be returning to the outdoor music venue with four Grammy award-winning artists. Ccountry music great Mary Chapin Carpenter will perform on Saturday, August 14, with Catie Curtis opening the show. Jazz legend Arturo Sandoval will be performing with his band on August 28, with an opening act by Conga-Bop, and Blues Traveler will be closing the season on Sunday, September 5, with opening acts The Steve Palmer Band and Luke MulHolland. All concerts will begin at 7:00 p.m., with the exception of Blues Traveler which will begin at 6:30 p.m. Tickets for all of the shows are available at Ticket Master
and range in price from $35-$60.
Purchase your tickets today and enjoy!!
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Duncaster Golf Tournament Taking Place on August 24, 2010 |  | |
There are still a few more foursomes open for Duncaster's Second Annual Charity Golf Tournament. Local golfers still have a chance to play the Wintonbury Hills Golf on Tuesday, August 24. Proceeds from the event will benefit the various Duncaster Community Funds which provide programs and services to Duncaster residents and supports local social service organizations and community projects.
Prizes will be given out to the low gross foursome, the player who hits the longest drive, closest to the pin, hole-in-one or wins the putting contest. There will also be prizes for the low net and low gross foursomes.
Registration starts at 11:00 with lunch at 11:30. There is a shotgun start (scramble format) at 1:00 with dinner following play around 6:00 p.m.
The cost for individual players is $175 and includes 18 holes with a cart, lunch, cocktails and dinner.
For information, please contact at Lou DeSario or by calling him at (860) 380-5051.
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The Residence Inn Windsor Wins Walker CupThe Residence Inn Windsor won the "Walker Cup Award"! This prestigious award was given to the hotel by the CEO of InnKeepers, Tim Walker. The award is based on increased revenue and market share, and gross operated profit compared to 2009.
The Residence Inn Windsor's Team was the best performing hotel in Island Hospitality's portfolio. GO RESIDENCE INN!!!
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Celebrate & Support CASAC's 20 Years of Community Involvement |  | |
The best science and experience tells us that reducing drug use at the community level takes time: time to put the needed inter ventions in place; time to change the underlying reasons for drug use in the community; time for getting outcomes; time to garner resources.
Capital Area Substance Abuse Council (CASAC) initiates programs and events that mobilize communities, increases public awareness, educates individuals and communities, and advocates for increased and improved prevention services. CASAC, a Regional Action Council, is the umbrella organization for the sixteen-town region of Avon, Bloomfield, Canton, East Granby, Farmington, Granby, Hartford, Hartland, Newington, Rocky Hill, Simsbury, Suffield, West Hartford, Wethersfield, Windsor and Windsor Locks.
CASAC, established by the Connecticut State Legislature in 1990, is a private/public partnership comprised of community leaders and citizens who develop and carry out strategies to reduce alcohol, tobacco, other drug use and risky behaviors in our communities. CASAC is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization funded in part by the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and private donations.
Please take this opportunity to support CASAC as we celebrate our first 20 years. If you would like to help fuel prevention efforts in CASAC's region, please consider making a tax deductible donation today.
Your donation will do so much to help our youth grow up and stay drug free.
CASAC's challenge is maintaining sustainability to continue to intervene at the community level long enough to see community-level outcomes. If volunteers are the engine and the coalition process is the vehicle then resources are the fuel.
For more information, contact Mirelle Freedman at executivedirector@casac.org or 860.286.9333 or for the donation form please visit our website at CASAC.
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ITN Northcentral Connecticut Partners with Primary Eye Care CenterITNNorthcentralConnecticut is pleased to announce that Primary Eye Care Center in Bloomfield, Windsor, Avon and Enfield have become a Ride & Shop partner with the Independent Transportation Network. This unique program allows merchants to become business partners and help offset the costs of the ride for ITN members when they use a Ride & Shop partner office. For information and applications call 860-758-7833 or email ITN Northcentral CT
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Convoy of Caring- September 21, 2010Join Foodshare in recognizing the many members of the food industry who consistently support the communities in Hartford and Tolland Counties. The Convoy departs from Rocky Hill, following a recognition breakfast, and makes the trek to Foodshare's facility in Bloomfield where they drop off their truckload of food donations. Donations made on this day are enough to provide more than 200,000 meals to Hartford's residents in need! Call us at 860-286-9999 for more information or email Ernie Pitti.
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Elderly Freedom, LLC - Transportation for the SeniorsElderly Freedom LLC provides transportation for seniors and handicapped,serving Bloomfield and Hartford county. We serve individual,agencies and retirement homes. We offer door to door service as well as assistance to those in need. We are fully insured for all the services we provide.Transportation is available on weekends and holiday.
Reservations/Information:
Call Aubrey Dehnert at 860-243-0074 or Direct 860-997-9816
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Save the Date! Bloomfield Chamber Business Expo October 28, 2010Open to all Bloomfield Chamber, Tobacco Valley Chamber Alliance, and businesses in the greater Hartford region.
Location:
Birch Meadow Banquet Facility
76 East Dudley Town Road
Bloomfield, CT 06002
For details on sponsorships, exhibit booths and ticket information, contact the Bloomfield Chamber at 860.242.3710. |
Pepe & Hazard LLP, (Hartford, CT) Chooses Retrievex to Manage Documents |  | |
Recently Retrievex was selected by Pepe & Hazard LLP (recently merged with McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP), a leading New England Law Firm headquartered in Hartford, CT, as their records management vendor of choice. Retrievex seamlessly transferred Pepe & Hazard LLP's documents to Retrievex's archives. Retrievex worked with the firm to customize RecordsLink, Retrievex's online records management system, to meet their unique records management needs.
According to Cindi LeMay, Records Manager at Pepe & Hazard LLC
"About a year ago I made the decision to investigate cutting costs and increasing customer service in connection with our off-site storage vendor.. During the initial phase I received a number of proposals from a variety of off-site records management vendors. While reviewing the proposals and arranging meetings with my top choices, Retrievex stood out as a very competitive, professional, organized and user friendly company.
Ultimately I selected Retrievex, and I have to say, they are a terrific choice. Retrievex personnel are wonderful to work with. We receive regular updates on the transfer process, the boxes are immediately scanned into the Retrievex system upon arrival and the transfer has gone very smoothly, we have had no issues with retrieving boxes during the entire process. As we near the end of the transfer, I can say it was a very positive experience and it is all due to the personnel at Retrievex. I had very minimal involvement in the process so all credit goes to Retrievex. All I had to do was read the transfer update e-mails!
Retrievex is extremely responsive; if it were necessary we could actually speak to a real person on the other end. We rely heavily on the web product RecordsLink which is very easy to use and the training class provided to my staff was lively, fun and made our switch very easy.
Our deliveries and pick-ups are made by Jason. Jason is very professional and friendly, and as the "face" of Retrievex to the customers, he's certainly a good representative for the company.. My staff and I are extremely happy with the customer service we are receiving, the prompt responses and the friendly atmosphere provided by Retrievex.
All my dealings with Retrievex have been extremely positive, and I would not hesitate to make the same choice again. We all have choices about who we do business with and I highly recommend Retrievex as a perfect choice."
Contact Retrievex at 860-331-8851 / 978-587-5584 |
GOODWorks 6th Annual Golf TournamentGOODWorks 6th Annual Golf Tournament will be held on September 10, 2010 at Simsbury Farms in Simsbury CT. Registration fee is $125 which includes cart, lunch and dinner. Shotgun starts at 12pm. For details call (860) 290-8329
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SBT Bancorp, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2010 Results |  | |
SIMSBURY, CT. July 30, 2010 - SBT Bancorp, Inc., (OTCBB: SBTB), holding company for Simsbury Bank & Trust Company, today announced net income of $273,000 for the second quarter of 2010, compared to $221,000 for the second quarter of 2009, an increase of 24%. Net income available to common shareholders after preferred dividends was $209,000, or $0.24 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2010, compared to $157,000, or $0.18 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2009, an increase of 33%.
Key items for the quarter include:
-Diluted earnings per share increased by 33%.
-Total revenues increased by 16%.
-Total loans outstanding increased by 15%.
-Core deposits increased by 17%.
-Taxable equivalent net interest margin increased by 47 basis points, from 3.54% to 4.01%.
-Loan loss reserves were maintained at 1.13% of total loans outstanding.
Capital ratios remained well above regulatory standards for a"well capitalized"bank.
"SBT Bancorp experienced another good quarter of growth in loans, deposits, revenues and earnings," said SBT Bancorp President and CEO, Martin J. Geitz. "Our customer focus remains the foundation of our success as it enables us to build shareholder value with an attractive, low-cost, relationship based deposit mix; a relatively low-risk mortgage, consumer and commercial loan portfolio; and a strong capital position."
Learn more about Simsbury Bank at www.simsburybank.com. |
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